Spar vs Supply - What's the difference?
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A rafter of a roof.
A thick pole or piece of wood.
(obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
(nautical) A general term denoting any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
(aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
(obsolete, or, dialectal) to bolt, bar.
To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
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To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
To contest in words; to wrangle.
(mineralogy) any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent blee, which are easily cleft
(mineralogy) any crystal with no readily discernible faces.
To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
To furnish or equip with.
To fill up, or keep full.
To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
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To serve instead of; to take the place of.
* Waller
* Dryden
To act as a substitute.
To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
(uncountable) The act of supplying.
(countable) An amount of something supplied.
(in the plural) provisions.
(mostly, in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.
* 1906 , Ford Madox Ford, The fifth queen: and how she came to court , page 68:
* 1938 , David Leslie Murray, Commander of the mists :
* 1963 , Johanna Moosdorf, Next door :
* 1988 , ??????? ?????????????? ???????? (Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov), Quiet flows the Don (translated), volume 1, page 96:
As nouns the difference between spar and supply
is that spar is claw while supply is (uncountable) the act of supplying.As a verb supply is
to provide (something), to make (something) available for use.As an adverb supply is
supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.spar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Perhaps also compare (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre , forth to him came […].
Derived terms
* spar buoy * spar deck * spar torpedoVerb
Derived terms
* oversparred, undersparredEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
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Etymology 3
From (etyl) spar, .Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----supply
English
(wikipedia supply)Alternative forms
* supplelyEtymology 1
From (etyl) souploier, from (etyl) .Verb
- to supply money for the war
- (Prior)
- to supply''' a furnace with fuel; to '''supply soldiers with ammunition
- Rivers are supplied by smaller streams.
- It was objected against him that he had never experienced love. Whereupon he arose, left the society, and made it a point not to return to it until he considered that he had supplied the defect.
- Burning ships the banished sun supply .
- The sun was set, and Vesper, to supply / His absent beams, had lighted up the sky.
- to supply a pulpit
Derived terms
* supplierNoun
(supplies)- supply and demand
- A supply of good drinking water is essential.
- to vote supplies
Derived terms
* supply teacherEtymology 2
Adverb
(en adverb)- His voice was playful and full; his back was bent supply .
- She swayed slightly in the gusts, bent supply to them and seemed at one with the force which Straup found so hostile.
- Grigory hesitantly took her in his arms to kiss her, but she held him off, bent supply backwards and shot a frightened glance at the windows.
- 'They'll see!'
- 'Let them!'
- 'I'd be ashamed—'